By skyforbes 
Employees are leaking sensitive company data through ChatGPT, Copilot, and AI tools without realizing it.
Do you ever really picture that you work efficiently, but perhaps your company has been leaking? Actually, that’s exactly what’s going on with a lot of employees who use ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini at work.
In their attempt to save time (writing summaries, emails), they give AI tools access to sensitive data without even realizing it.
I have the experience of witnessing this situation directly. To make it “sound professional,” someone shares a strategy document with ChatGPT, and immediately, without your knowledge, that information is no longer safe at the various places of its company’s servers. There is no need for breaking in. Just a mistake of a human and a bit of overreliance on technology.
Now, the funny thing is that newly released cybersecurity research has brought into the spotlight that AI conversations have now taken the lead among the main causes of data leaks in the corporate environment. They are even beyond email, cloud, or phishing scam leaks. Yet most of these leakages stay invisible as organizations are not aware of what employees are posting in their…